Mother throws children from apartment
MAKKAH – A mother threw her six children out of the window from the fourth floor to save them from a rapidly spreading fire that broke out in a building at Rusaifah district in Makkah.
Civil Defense and hospital sources said the children sustained several injuries and two of them were in critical condition.
When Civil Defense units arrived at the scene, the mother was about to follow her children to escape the thick smoke that filled her apartment.
Firefighters stormed the apartment, put out the fire and rescued the woman. A short-circuit was believed to be the cause of the fire.
Okaz/Saudi Gazette met the father of the children who provided some details.
He said his wife Khadija, 28, called him and told him that they were trapped inside the apartment because of the fire and that she would have to release the children from the window on the fourth floor to save them from choking to death by heavy smoke. He immediately called the Civil Defense who dispatched teams to the site.
Fatimah, 3, sustained severe head trauma because the back of her head hit one of the air-conditioners on her way down. She is still in coma. The other children — Safiya, 11; Osama, 8; Nawaf, 7; Hassan, 6; and Muhammad, 2 — were rushed to King Abdulaziz Hospital and Al-Noor Specialist Hospital. The mother suffered from minor smoke inhalation.
An investigations is under way to find out the cause of the fire. The director of emergency unit at Al-Noor Specialist Hospital said the hospital was equipped to treat all the cases.
He said the condition of the children was reassuring except for the two who still remain in the ICU
U can't judge a mother's reaction in such a case, i just had a fire burning my house we were trapped on the second floor. My kids couldn't breath because of the smoke and the heat, so i threw a mattress then my 3 kids on it from the second floor. I had to throw them out whatever were the circumstances. They are fine thanks God.
Misleading title. I like.
Cant agree she was wrong. She is a mother of six. No mother is like to kill her kids knowingly. So she tried to save the kids by her ability and faith.
I'm sure, she might have done this after several thoughts. She might have waited so long for the rescue. There is not mentioned when the rescue has arrived at the spot!! And the same report says "from a rapidly spreading fire that broke out in a building... " .
So can't agree she was wrong. If she was wrong, no doubt.. she would have been jumped..!
It was a 'WRONG TURN'
... I dont know whether the decision was right or wrong, but i salute to her bravery that she took such a bold decision by throwing her kids out of the fourth floor window... things look totally reverse when the mother was saved by rescuers but thinking the tragedy of villagio when innocent kids died of suffocation and resuers had no clue how to fight, i think that was a brave and prompt decision atleast she saved their lives ignoring herself, and what if she was not rescued
the article says "The mother suffered from minor smoke inhalation." - so i was assuming that the fire was not as serious and she panicked..
Truly in such an unimaginably frightening chaotic moment, one can never imagine how we would react, specially as a parent. Smoke inhalation can kill in minutes...the lady obviously only intended to save her children. In fact a similar incident took place sometime back with a mom of two, and sadly one of the lil boys died.
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by throwing they wld be saved ?? that too from the 4th floor ---age 11; Osama, 8; Nawaf, 7; Hassan, 6; and Muhammad, 2
Brit..how can we say it was wrong action...if she had waited there for the rescue team..maybe those lil ones must have already died bcos of suffocation..
Poor woman.. panicked and took the wrong action .. Hope the little one recovers.
i dont think throwing 6 children from 4th floor was a good idea , same risk
OMG....her intention was good but what if the child have to live with some permenant disability..
I dont know what I would have done in a similar situation...